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She wished nervously to give Catherine's extraordinary moral strength no greater advantage over her than she could help. Presently, however, Catherine threw her arm round her with a tender protectingness. 'What did you do with yourself all the afternoon, Röschen? 'I practised for two hours, said the girl shortly, 'and two hours this morning. My Spohr is nearly perfect.
It was a further singularity in view of the conviction with which Peter had come through the night, that the mood of protectingness which the girl provoked in him should have multiplied itself in pointing out to him how many ways, if he had not made up his mind not to marry her at all, such a marriage could be made to serve its primal uses.
She wished nervously to give Catherine's extraordinary moral strength no greater advantage over her than she could help. Presently, however, Catherine threw her arm round her with a tender protectingness. 'What did you do with yourself all the afternoon, Röschen? 'I practised for two hours, said the girl shortly, 'and two hours this morning. My Spohr is nearly perfect.
But this time she was not conscious of any note of irony in his manner, rather of a kind protectingness more pronounced, perhaps, than it would have been in an Englishman, at the same stage of acquaintance. But Elizabeth liked it; she liked, too, the fine bare head that the torchlight revealed; and the general impression of varied life that the man's personality produced upon her.
Alexina reached out and, with a passionate sort of protectingness, took hold of the beringed hand wielding a fan with vivacity and sprightliness. "I wish we could have given him more advantages," Mrs. Leroy was continuing; "but he's had to plan for us somehow instead.
If she had, out of her hero-worship, conceived a passion for him, he had an equal passion for her, of protectingness and sad certainty that he could do no better than ensure her distance from him.
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